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Jun
Top honours for North East school leaders
Congratulations to the school leaders from our region who were recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2017 for services to education! Lesley Powell, Executive Principal
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Jun
Grammar school proposals missing from Queen's Speech
With the Conservatives losing their majority at the general election on 8 June, key education proposals were absent from the Queen’s Speech earlier this week. In a toned
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Jun
Queen's Speech 2017: SCHOOLS NorthEast response
SCHOOLS NorthEast, the representative body for all 1,250 schools in the region, welcomes the Government’s commitment to fairer funding for schools, reform of technical education
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Jun
School leaders urge Government to do more on mental health
At SCHOOLS NorthEast’s inaugural Healthy MindED Conference last week, delegates told us what the government needs to do to improve mental health and wellbeing in schools.
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Jun
North East has the most pupils offered first preference school
A higher proportion of pupils received offers from their first preference school in the North East than any other region. This week the Government released statistics on primary
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Jun
Ofsted proposes changes to short inspections
A full inspection would be completed within a maximum of 15 working days when a short inspection converts, whilst around 20% of good schools would automatically receive full
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